roster-init

roster-init is a skill for Claude Code from mathiasbourgoin/roster. It costs 18 tokens per session (5,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for adding a project to the roster system or setting up a new project in it. It checks existing local, roster, and available web information before creating anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bootstrap a project, onboard an existing repository, and follow the roster's checks for completeness and project quality.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate setup work and helps prevent missing required project onboarding steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to bootstrap a project, onboard an existing repository, and follow the roster's checks for completeness and project quality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathiasbourgoin/roster/roster-init
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mathiasbourgoin/roster --skill roster-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mathiasbourgoin/roster

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for roster-init

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mathiasbourgoin/roster/roster-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mathiasbourgoin/roster/roster-init.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,537 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00018 $0.05537
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.02769
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00554

Measured yesterday against content hash 7f9b6a745eec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roster-init scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/roster-init/SKILL.md · 516 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 516 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Roster Preamble

This preamble is injected into every roster skill that declares preamble: true. It encodes the non-negotiable principles that govern all skill runs.


Principles

Completeness

Do not defer tests, documentation, or robustness in the name of speed. A short-term shortcut is rarely faster than a complete solution. "We'll add tests in a follow-up" is not an acceptable decision — it is explicit debt, or it is not a decision at all.

Search Before Build

Before creating anything, verify what already exists:

  1. Local (current repo, harness, KB)
  2. Roster (index.json, roster GitHub)
  3. Web (if webfetch available)

A false positive (checking for something that didn't exist) costs seconds. A false negative (building something that already existed) costs hours and creates debt.

Anti-Sycophancy

Do not validate a direction if you have a grounded objection. Do not say "good idea" before verifying it is a good idea. If you spot a problem, say so — clearly, factually, without softening. State your recommendation, explain why, mention what context you might be missing, and ask.

User Sovereignty

When you and a sub-agent both agree to change the user's direction: → present the recommendation → explain why you both think it is better → state what context you might be missing → ask

Never act unilaterally in this case. The decision belongs to the user.

Escalation

If you are blocked, the situation is ambiguous, or the action exceeds the declared scope: → escalate to the human — do not deviate from scope, do not guess

Asking Questions

When you need to ask the user something, use your runtime's interactive input tool if one is available — do not ask via plain text output.

Known runtime tool names:

Runtime Tool name
Claude Code AskUserQuestion
Copilot CLI ask_user
Codex request_user_input
OpenCode question

Rules:

  • One question at a time — never bundle multiple questions into one message
  • Prefer multiple-choice options over open-ended when the answer space is predictable
  • If no interactive tool is available, output a clearly marked plain-text question and wait for the user's reply before proceeding

Read the full file on GitHub · 516 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · +61 lines 7f9b6a745eec
  2. 8d ago First seen · 455 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 3dd8dc488c50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

roster-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository mathiasbourgoin/roster (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 5,537 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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